Want to help us fight for immigrant kids? #BeAWaymaker! $$$ keeps the fight going & all September, we're gonna turn miles into money. 😁 Help us record 25,000 miles to secure our sponsorship funds! We're also asking people to do $187 fundraisers. (Average detention stay for a child is 187 days.) ❤️

Waymakers Virtual Mileage Challenge

The Waymakers Virtual Mileage Challenge is on Tuesday September 1, 2026 to Wednesday September 30, 2026.

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After talking to a young writer last night, I want to remind you all that it's okay to write without an assignment or goal. Write to explore a new technique, get an idea out of your head, or as emotional exhalation. Write for the raw joy of it. For you alone. It doesn't need to go into a portfolio

It's the FINAL WEEK of the Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! Kickstarter, and we are 86% funded!!! NOW IS THE TIME TO COMBINE YOUR SPACE UNICORN MAGICS AND MAKE THIS HAPPEN! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...

Thinking today about the kind of long character arcs where the character starts out wanting something that makes sense in their particular world-paradigm, then slowly starts to realize that the entire paradigm is unsalvageably flawed.

If you want the absolute best reason to back this year's Kickstarter, go read today's new Uncanny Magazine stories, essays, poems, interview, and/or listen to the podcast! That all happened because of last year's Kickstarter! The Year 12 Backers made that happen for EVERYONE! www.uncannymagazine.com

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Tuesdays with the Space Unicorn! The Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! Kickstarter is 84% funded with just 8 days to go! LET'S GET THIS YEAR FUNDED SO WE CAN ALSO GET THREE ORIGINAL COVERS! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about A TASTE OF HONEY by Kai Ashante Wilson. An achingly tender story of love and duty, the end made all the hair on my arms stand up. Queer, lovely, immensely powerful. This is a truly VITAL novella. Our drink is Olorum.

If you're thinking about transitioning, or if you just like seeing trans people happy, please check out the quotes and replies here. Absolutely heartening to see so many beautiful people coming into their own. It's never too late. 💚

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If you have transitioned later in life, please know how deeply you are needed here. Your story is the exact proof someone else needs to finally take their first step.

With just over a week to go, we still need to raise ~9k to get Year 13 of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social fully funded. And beyond that are stretch goals like original cover art and bonus flash stories. Love the magazine? Subscribe and spread the word! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...

Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU!

Funding to support Year 13 of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. We have more stories to tell together!

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Love reading South Asian speculative fiction? Join our team as a slush reading volunteer! We're looking for passionate, committed readers, and experience in writing or editing is a plus. Send your pitch to hello.tasavvur@gmail.com to apply. #tasavvur #speculativefiction #southasian #slushreading

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Shoot, trying again… unicorn plushies, a personal tarot reading and critiques of your work by hot authors/editors still left as rewards for the Uncanny kickstarter. www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...

Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU!

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Tomorrow they charge us a $50 fee raising what we need to $1,010 and we get served a 3 day notice. After that comes a $76 charge to begin the eviction process. Any help and shares would be awesome. Thank you!

🏳️‍🌈 Kimberly L Piper Writes Queer Shit 🏳️‍🌈@klpwrites.bsky.social · 3d ago

Desperate for help with August rent. We are short $960. We are trying to beat a $50 late fee & 3 day notice that will be served on the 4th. Any and everything helps! Paypal & Venmo gets it to us faster to pay. Please share. Thank you everyone! 🌼 Paypal @ KimberlySession Venmo @ Kimberly-Piper-24

Missouri friends: tomorrow is Election Day and I'm sure you already know to vote NO on amendments 4 and 5 to preserve our citizen-led ballot measure process and prevent a huge statewide sales tax hike, but please also vote YES on 1 to preserve an existing tax for parks and conservation too!

It's my birthday this week! To celebrate, the eBook of THE DEVOURING is on sale for $0.99 between August 3-9. If you've been thinking of buying it but haven't had a chance yet, now's the perfect time! 💙📚 Links to buy are on my website: amshilling.com/books/the-devouring/

Sorry for re-sharing, but the funds raised so far already ($1,300) went toward expenses in June—but developments in the past week are 1) my cat (Zel) needed $2,500 emergency surgery, & 2) seems there’s a balance of $1,500 from a scan I had in January that’s gone to collections. gofund.me/d8ae681e1

Donate to Help AJ Overcome Health and Financial Challenges, organized by AJ Odasso

Hi, all! My name is AJ. I’m a college English professor, editor, and writer… AJ Odasso needs your support for Help AJ Overcome Health and Financial Challenges

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Our friend @travisbaldree.bsky.social is marked safe in the Spokane fire, but asking those who can donate to head to this link to directly support his impacted neighbors! If you're able to help through donations and/or signal-boosting, please do! my.spokanecity.org/endinghomele...

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Donations to the H.O.M.E. Starts Here Fund go directly to supporting services for those experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

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WE NEED YOUR HELP, SPACE UNICORNS! The Uncanny Magazine Year 13: the Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! Kickstarter is 82% funded with 9 days to go! Please push us over that finish line so we can make another year of your Uncanny Magazine! buff.ly/YXbF3WP

Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU!

Funding to support Year 13 of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. We have more stories to tell together!

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Want a deal on some books? In honor of the Craft Wars being up for the Hugo Award, these are $2.99 in ebook for a limited time, on all retailers: THREE PARTS DEAD (bookshop.org/p/books/thre...) TWO SERPENTS RISE (bookshop.org/p/books/two-...) DEAD COUNTRY (bookshop.org/p/books/dead...)

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From the author of the viral bestseller This is How You Lose the Time War..."Stunningly good. Stupefyingly good." —Patrick RothfussMax Gladstone's Craft Sequence chronicles the epic struggle to build ...

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For many, the costs of participating in industry events are barriers. Dream Foundry's Con or Bust program helps to remove them. You can be part of why we get to reply with good news. We'd appreciate your donations to support this program: dreamfoundry.org/con...

Possibly a sign of burnout recovery--I'm starting to get excited thinking about methods of characterization. How to sketch a quick but vivid portrait of a minor character, how to deepen a major non-perspective character, how to show that a perspective character's thinking has changed.

An anthology of Indigenous voices, published by Utah publishing house Torrey House Press, just won a 2026 American Book Award.

This book from a Utah publishing house won the American Book Award

"Beyond the Glittering World" was published by Torrey House Press in 2025.

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Since preorders are ready for OUR CRIMSON CAGE, did you know you get discounts if you order all the yuri books in my catalogue? We've got toxic lesbian vampires, lesbian hitmen, and a witch and a bard falling in love, plus stickers and memo pads Check it out: ladz-merch.square.site

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How about we get a Yuri promo day going today? If you’ve got Yuri tell people about it and where to buy it! #WritingPrompt

Folks, Lightspeed & Nightmare magazines need your support. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/a...

Announcement: We're Launching a New Kickstarter Soon. Sign up to be notified when it launches! - Lightspeed Magazine

On September 15, 2026, we’ll be launching our first Kickstarter campaign in more than a decade, to fund Year 17 of Lightspeed and Year 15 of Nightmare. Join us for a year of new short fiction from som...

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Apparently it’s Yaoi Day, so here’s a selection of my m/m art. I owe a lot of artistic growth, entertainment and challenging my own perceptions to what I started to learn in the early 00s yaoi fandoms. Yaoi wasn’t perfect but it was my in to everything else <33

they’re so close to hitting the base goal, who wants to bring this one home so we can start tackling stretch goals? 👀👀

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Boutons d'or en papier crépon. #paperflower

Ooh ooh! Happy August -- turns out THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is discounted at ebook retailers this month! :D $1.99 CAD at Kobo! The Tyrant's children have gone missing... and Veris Thorn is the only one who's gone into the magical forest and returned. So who better for a coerced rescue mission?

The Butcher of the Forest ebook by Premee Mohamed - Rakuten Kobo

Read "The Butcher of the Forest" by Premee Mohamed available from Rakuten Kobo. "A perfect mix of horror and fantasy."—The New York Times “The Butcher of the Forest” shows exactly why Mohamed is one o...

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Clarkesworld has recently discovered that their August issue successfully breached containment and gained access to the Internet, where it is presently hacking reader's minds. "Oh no, what will we do? Who knew that stories could be so powerful?" said Neil Clarke, when approached for comment.

Clarkesworld@clarkesworldmagazine.com · 4d ago

The August issue of Clarkesworld is now online and features stories by Ravn J. Silver, Eilis O’Neal, Jordan Alexander, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, E.N. Auslender, Y.M. Pang, and H.H. Pak. clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_239 Subscribe today at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

The portal opens tomorrow… are you ready? We want horror stories up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints. We pay $0.08 per word. Simultaneous submissions are accepted so long as you keep us informed. More details on our website (below).

A piece of advice for new writers: read the magazines you're submitting stories to. Not only will it help you understand their tastes, but you'll probably find some cool writers who will broaden your horizons.